The paper of a fake bill is real, but that doesn't mean that the bill is real. Real money is meaningfully different from fake money. Everything doesn'...
We don't need to live our lives via electronic screens, and lots of people don't. There are many interests and professions in which one does not work ...
Also lovers of truth and wisdom lie whenever it helps them stay afloat on a sinking ship (or perceived as such). On a shrinking job market, supposedly...
Awareness is detachable in ways that what we are aware of is not. For example, we can easily detach our visual awareness from the marks of this text b...
I'd say the problem is not in our understanding of time, but in our application of causality. Causality is applied as a relation between discrete even...
I get it, but one might want to consider the fact that even bacteria are aware of their existence. How else could they discriminate between cell popul...
Well, it entails a life. Any living organism is aware of its environment, which includes the organism. It is causally self-reflexive in the sense that...
That's not my claim. That's another misrepresentation. Let's take a look at what we said: The negation "don't expect" means that we don't have the exp...
It's a fact that there are different types of real objects in the world. Molecules is an example of natural objects, money is an example of socially c...
No, I said that ghosts are fiction. For example, Casper the friendly ghost is real in the sense that some pictures or descriptions have the recognizab...
Some things, e.g. molecules, exist independent of us. So, for example if we humans go extinct, and in a couple of million years some new life form eme...
Sure, but those were states and governments on a different level of description. You can call a family-home a state, and the parents its government. A...
Right, when the government is corrupt or incompetent it is like an absent government, and instead of a ruling government open to scrutiny, you'll have...
The absence of unjust forms of government won't prevent forms of unjust governance from emerging out of the relationships between individuals. Some ga...
They experience days and nights following previous days and nights, not the time in which they follow each other. They see the Eiffel tower, its exten...
What exists for us to experience of God, souls, spirits etc. are our own and other people's descriptions, pictures, sculptures, plays performed by act...
Yes, because the ability to understand things in the environment remotely via symbols (natural or socially constructed) is a function of any animal's ...
The true test for whether other animals have symbolic language is not empirical but depends on what is meant by 'language'. Other animals don't seem t...
Sure, but notice that you ask whether our experiences (plural) are the same experience (singular). The former (plural) is a use of the word 'experienc...
Right, you can easily stipulate conditions under which it is impossible to know whether the object that you see is genuine or counterfeit. But questio...
Well, that's not a direct but transitive relation. You can see what I'm like by way of seeing what the mannequin is like. But the object of your exper...
The short answer is: yes, as long as I'm the object that you see. One might add that the seeing is a presentation in your conscious awareness of some ...
That's several different experiences and objects stacked on top of each other. What could that be like? More or less like it is when it is seen (disre...
Well, no. I claim that when you see the cat, then the relation between your experience and the cat is direct. Basically, the experience that you have ...
Well, you quote two of my sentences, but omit the two different senses in which I use them, which makes them contradict each other. But that's not how...
That's strange, because I also give examples of invisible things such as feelings that can resemble each other. The invisible and visible can't resemb...
A cartoonist who imagines a fictional cat might find it relevant to also see visible cats. Understanding their differences makes sense, I think. The f...
I didn't. What's central to resemblance is a set of comparable objects and states of affairs. The visible/invisible comparison is a means for clarifyi...
1.The importance of visibility is relative to the success of vision as a means for acquiring knowledge of our environment. This knowledge-related feat...
The indirect realist never experiences the world, recall, only figments (e.g. sense-data) of his/her own experiences, by way of which s/he indirectly ...
On the contrary! When you experience the world as it is, then your experience is the world. Doesn't mean that the world is a figment of your experienc...
A resemblance-relation requires at least two objects which can resemble each other. Granted that all objects resemble each other in the abstract sense...
They're implausible in different ways. The idea that a mind somehow constructs the world, even before there were any minds, is not so coherent. Then y...
Imagining a cat may resemble seeing a cat (or cat-like doodle) since the levels of hormones and neurotransmitters that evoke the mental states in both...
You typically spend the first 6 - 12 months studying the history of western philosophy: ancient, medieval, and modern, including an introduction to lo...
I mention idealism and direct realism as examples of philosophies in which the hard problem does not arise from splitting the world in two between bod...
No. In my description of a mental visualization of what a cat looks like, I use the word 'feeling' instead of 'mental image', because the word 'image'...
:roll: That's not direct realism. Why bother? For example, a bird observing its environment,, birdwatchers observing the bird, a prison guard observin...
I don't want to eliminate the idea of a mental image. The ability to imagine things is central in my daily work (architecture). Like most people, I ha...
In my posts above I'm arguing against the property dualism that is implied in the so called hard problem of consciousness. The problem reappears also ...
Ok, Husserl might not seem to be a dualist, but the assumption that consciousness is immaterial in the sense that it never appears as an object in a w...
Right, so instead of substance-dualism you have two orders or perspectives or property-dualism. All the same, when we want to explain how two phenomen...
Right, but there is no relation between a mental image and hormone levels to explain when the cat that you see is a real cat (not a mental image). (Wh...
I'm not sure our ignorance is so fundamental. Moreover, the word 'experience', like perceptual verbs such as 'see', are ambiguous. By clarifying their...
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